We get a rock 'em sock 'em mountain stage with carnage spread over two giant mountains. The race was blown up like a pinata by CSC and Saunier Duval swept in to pick up the candy.

The only thing missing was a metaphor about storming the gates of Bastille on this French national holiday in which French cyclist Rémy Di Grégorio of Française des Jeux win Most Aggressive Rider. Compare against this humdrum "just the facts" reporting from Velo News:

Cadel Evans (Silence-Lotto) seized the yellow jersey atop Hautacam on Monday as Leonardo Piepoli (Saunier Duval-Scott) won the mountainous stage 10 of the Tour de France.

...pez has a daily race report, a regular 'tour de pez' 'human interest' story & a 'tour de france' coach article for each stage, wherein chris carmicheal adds some interesting insight regarding what's transpired on each stage...

...been a fan, since i realized as fritz pointed out, that their posts (& photos) are not the typically dry reportage of the "usual suspects"...v-news & c-news journalists cross their t's & dot their i's like they learned in school but as far as personality, ehh, not so much...

...bob 'bobke' roll is doing a nice daily blog during the tdf over at road bike action & as most will know, mr roll is always entertaining...tim maloney is in france & writes well for that same rag...